At the end of a special United Nations conference in Sweden to discuss Iraqi debts, Nuri al-Maliki, Iraq's prime minister, has said that he has received no firm commitments from Arab states to help ease his country's debt burden. Baghdad owes at least $67bn to Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar. |
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Amanda Lang was a wonderful member of the Opednews team, and the first volunteer editor, for a good number of years being a senior editor. She passed away summer 2014.